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Four Men Found Guilty in Delhi Rape Case

9/10/2013 4:22AM

Four men have been found guilty of the rape and murder of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in December in New Delhi. The WSJ’s Paul Beckett tells Deborah Kan why there is still a long way to go for women to be safer in India.

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... the ... it gave ... me a hand during one in New Delhi last December being found guilty by a court in New Delhi ... I'm Deborah con joining me now as I he's added there Paul Beckett ... to what is in India during ... this case ... so all I know what to think the reaction is I think a lot of people were expecting guilty for where the war on ... men ... I think there was the expedition is to do this thing was we reporters he respects that ... the defense kind of tumbled when ... one of the medicine to being on the bus ... in the oven to that one day he did this with this new email even though it tell you that one guy said ... I was there so somebody else ... I think it was widely expected it's been pretty quick play in the extended two and this is a very high profile cases a fast track court ... I and and ... nine ten months seems a long time some of the distinctions between this and this is what ... it paid out in terms of sentencing what can we expect ... it well though since this region since the protests over ... the coming has increased the severity of punishment for ... sexual crimes that they would face possible death of incentives that were so common to it ... a K ... and a I G has meant a loss to really get changed and because of this case and they become ... stricter to add ... hopefully a man and protect women against actual violence ... um are we seeing any impact in those laws Nenad has been at the end since since last December ... I think is eleven bags in terms of ... the mass of this ... crime was to sit by the court that the number of reported rapes is actually increased which in some ... ways is a good thing and that ... doesn't lessen the more advantages has more it's been reported ... on the key to all of that and and that is going to say that stiffer punishment is a bad thing ... but the key to all of it is enforced absence laws and that will take a much much longer time for much tougher job you have to make these more efficient course more efficient ... those ... those numbers is one thing in implementing them ... the Encore's said there were five adults in all one of them had died ... in prison ... do you know anything about that investigation that less certain that it was still in dispute with the prison authorities said ... this is the family so ... question ... analysis but I don't think that the ... results ... ok and and a juvenile obvious anti last month was handed down a few years and in some sort of a ... prison for juveniles ... of a was there any backlash from and how how was what was the public reaction ... that that wasn't too much to think that I knew that to ... you is ... a prudent and you know it ranks in the questions and some agitation over whether he really was a juvenile but since that was ... verified to court satisfaction that I think ... that is the juvenile justice system for ... the things that was ... much of it that I think the thing to watch here is whether the four convicted did they get that Alsea ... eyes to get life in prison and I think I will be plenty of people including the victim's parents can ... receive our sentence ... and cake thanks Fran that's all back at my people watching this case for more on it you can get it out for more live coverage I should say that it WS J dot com and ever con ...